Combining work by Will Gresson and Luke Munn, who migrated to Germany simultaneously, DOUBLEGOER investigates how experience is transmitted to bricks and bodies, exploring place and presence, translation and translocation. All The Places I’ve Never Been uses code to create a negative image of presence over time, the resulting data burnt, shredded and dispersed – software rewriting the somatic. Tracks and Traces examines Berlin’s relationship to its divided past and how the narrative is represented in the former geisterbahnhöfe (‘ghost stations’) of the city’s ubiquitous S and U-Bahn lines. Collaborative project Bodies/Cities, provides scores for ways of moving a body through urban space and documents these projects. For the duration of the month, Window Online has invited artists to respond to Gresson and Munn’s original scores which instruct “a unique situation, comprised of the participant’s body, the immediate environment and their performative interpretation.”

DOUBLEGOER was conceived as part of a body of work addressing place and person, and the challenges of expressing lived experience from a distance and through barriers of dislocation. ‘Doublegoer’ is a literal translation of the German doppelgänger, which ranges in meaning from its historical origins as a paranormal twin or a sinister form of bilocation to its contemporary use as a look-alike or copy. DOUBLEGOER thus speaks to the duality of the immigrant experience; living and functioning in a foreign setting, all the while experiencing a familiar disconnect to the surrounding culture, language and custom.

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Luke Munn is an interdisciplinary artist based in Berlin whose work focuses on sound, new-media and social engagement. His projects have featured in the Kunsten Museum of Modern art, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Causey Contemporary Brooklyn, Fold Gallery London and the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, with performances in Paris, Montreal, Chicago, Berlin, Auckland and New York. www.lukemunn.com

Will Gresson is a New Zealand artist currently based in Berlin. Since relocating in 2009 he has been involved in various projects using field recordings, photography and video to explore the relationship between people and the systems which operate within large city spaces. He has performed and exhibited in New Zealand, Germany, Scotland, turkey and the USA. Gresson also runs the Selektives Hören Archiv which sporadically archives parts of the experimental music scene in Berlin. www.willgresson.bandcamp.com, selektive-hoeren-archiv.dablweb.com